Source through Davis, A Quaker Family by Opal Lousin. May have been
buried in the Rose Hill Cem. where parents and others of his family are buried.
Opal Anderson Lousin has been the moving force in the gathering of the
Anderson family hisotry, most of which we have is contributed to her. She has been a professional genealogist and recognized by many people who have
researced across this country whom we have been in contact. She has supplied
us with considerable information and direction for our research.
As of January 1993 we received a latest package from her, living at 2625
Gershing Rd.,Apt. 730 Box 252, Northbrook, Ill. 60062-5999.
LARRY and BETTY HOLMES. Here are some miscelaneous notes for you both to
put in your records where they belong, please. I have been working on
compiling this information for about four weeks and wish that the two of you
now would bollow up to learn what more you can about our family history and
advise me your findings. .....There are pages of letters and notes which will belong under specific persons in this family history....Dec 3, 1992, Notes from Opal Lousin, scattered in various families as she referred to them. ...."Most of what I know of the family is from research and from Archie Anderson, now deceased, with a little from my brother. I left Blockton when I was four years old and rarely saw my father until his death in 1932 and had no reason to discuss the family with him or his sister, Cora, and daughter, Beaulah West, has worked on the history also. Now her (Beulah's death. Joseph and Rosanna Foskett had after Napolean, a son Christopher Columbus and Rosa Iowa who married Giles Hunt, a Civil War veteran. I don't think Rosa Iowa Foskett Hunt had any children. Either you or Archie sent me a copy of a letter from Giles Hunt, possibly from somewhere in Kansas or Oklahoma, telling about his wife's illness - possibly Diabetes, Nothing was said, so far as I recall, about any children. I think Christopher Columbus, aka "Lum" stopped off to see Allen on his way west. That is all I know about him. Napolean must have married because in some way Beulah learned about his granddaughter living in Kansas City but she did not know anything about her grandfather's family, apparently, at all. I do not know her name but she gave Beulah the impression she did not want to know anything. I assume Napolean could have lived in Savannah, Andrew Co., Mo., or St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Mo. It is possible of course, that because Joseph Foskett was aobut 20 years older that Susanna that he died first and she lived by necessity with either Napolean, "Lum" or Rosa Iowa Hunt. My brother, Charlie, wrote once that he thought (heard or remembered?) that Rosa Iowa and Giles Hunt stopped off there on their way west. I think they may have gone to Wichita, Kansas, or someone thought to Oklahoma. Rosanna Anderson Foskett's brother, Seth Bray and his family went to a Quaker Meeting in Crawford County, Kansas from Mahaska County.
He was the one with whom she either lived in 1856 or else lived nearby. His wife's name was Keziah Beals Bray. You might check census records for 1860 and on for him, and may catch Rosanna Foskett if she was with them also. My brother's information was mostly hearsay as he was born in 1897. He visited with Aunt Cora a lot and he got his information from her. She had known the family there in Blockton area and said one of her grandmothers was a good housekeeper. Rosa not having much to go on that possibly she was not the good housekeeper. Rosa wore a little white apron and they all contended that was because she was a Quaker but knew nothing more about that assumption. Cora had a pencil notation that Rosa died in 1890. I have a notation that my brother must have given me that she died in 1889 and he thought she was buried in Ravenswood Cemetery, Ravenswood, Nodaway Co., Mo. Another time he thought she died in 1901. Therefore, we can assume it was within that decade sometime, probably in Iowa, Missouri, or Kansas. I think research should be made for Napolean, Columbus, and, therefore, Rosa Foskett in Missouri first after 1870 where they lived in Ringgold County, Iowa. I checked the death records for Worth County and she did not die there.